March 2023
Wow, and just like that the first quarter of 2023 is already over! I look back on a full March with visits and meet-ups in the new Heimat (home) and further explorations in the world of flora and fauna (another natural history museum!).
I went to a cinema after a long time and it was wonderful! The last day of March took me on one of the most beautiful train journeys I’ve taken so far: from Mainz to Düsseldorf. Despite the romantic scenery, it is solely described as "Linke Rheinstrecke" ( West Rhine railway - literally "left (bank of the) Rhine route").
Something with photography
I came across the podcast iso400 via the online photo magazine kwerfeldein (both german). It hasn’t been around since yesterday and apparently I had used the wrong keywords. How often have I searched for podcasts on analogue photography and found almost nothing?
Many thoughts, ideas and impulses about photography accompanied me. Among them: This year, I will use up as many of my remaining films as possible (I received them as a gift a few years ago).
I took my first steps in portrait photography: I officially asked the first person if I could take her portrait and she agreed. Regarding flatlay photography, I decided not buying any stuff as necessary basics like a neutral background, simple props and light can surely be found somewhere at home.
Scanner focus
I knitted a slipper earlier this month but I didn’t like the needle; so quite quickly it was put aside. Darning, on the other hand, has taken more of a hold on me; currently on the darning mushroom or egg, there is a black cardigan and a sock, both with thin threads. Before these spots mutate into a real hole, both will be darned using the duplicate stitch. And last but not least: A crochet hook fount its between my fingers again and I crocheted in rounds.
The blog and I
March was a really great blogging month by my standards: Beside my blog posts (Review of the month for Februrary, beginning of two series (darning, self-developped (photos)), Wish to network), gab es noch die Überarbeitung einer besonderen Seite: die Seite über mich. Die erste Version fühlte sich nicht mehr richtig an. Das Ding zu schreiben ist trotzdem schwer, aber jetzt ist es vollbracht!
What's coming up in April 2023
Spoiler: Not much.. I would have loved to keep going with the flow but I'm going to put a lot of things on hold for April, including the blog. Furnishing our new home will be prioritized. In the end, I realized that I need to put energy and time into furnishing if I want it to look more than a "Yep, I’ve put something there once because we needed something…..[and then it was never moved again]„.
But I’m looking forward to my little niche where I can work more on my five trillion projects again in the future! 😀
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